Office of the Historian

393.1123/26: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)

Washington, December 10, 1940—noon.

529. Peiping’s 502, December 4, 3 p.m.,54 Bard incident.

The Department assumes that you will in due course, in your discretion, take up this matter with the Japanese Foreign Office in such manner as you may deem appropriate, either as a separate matter or in conjunction with other matters.55

Sent to Tokyo via Peiping. Repeated to Chungking. Peiping mail to Tsinan.

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  1. Not printed; see telegram of October 30, 10 p.m., from the Vice Consul at Tsinan, p. 906.↩
  2. The Ambassador in Japan in his telegram No. 1328, December 17, 8 p.m., reported he had made full oral representations to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (393.1123/28).↩